Dromadidae
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Dromadidae is a small bird family best known for the crab-plover, a distinctive shorebird of coastal regions around the Indian Ocean.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dromadidae canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7801784 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dromadidae Context triple: [Charadriiformes, containsFamily, Dromadidae]
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A.
Camel
Camel is a long-established American cigarette brand known for its distinctive camel logo and association with R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.
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B.
Camel
Camel is the NATO reporting name for the Tupolev Tu-104, a Soviet-era twinjet airliner and one of the world’s first successful jet-powered passenger aircraft.
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C.
Camelus
Camelus is a genus of large, hump-backed mammals commonly known as camels, adapted for survival in arid desert environments.
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Arabian camel
The Arabian camel, also known as the dromedary, is a single-humped camel adapted to hot desert environments and widely used as a beast of burden and source of milk, meat, and wool across arid regions.
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E.
Camelus bactrianus
Camelus bactrianus is the domesticated two-humped Bactrian camel, adapted to cold desert and steppe environments of Central Asia and used traditionally for transport, wool, milk, and meat.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dromadidae Target entity description: Dromadidae is a small bird family best known for the crab-plover, a distinctive shorebird of coastal regions around the Indian Ocean.
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A.
Camel
Camel is a long-established American cigarette brand known for its distinctive camel logo and association with R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.
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B.
Camel
Camel is the NATO reporting name for the Tupolev Tu-104, a Soviet-era twinjet airliner and one of the world’s first successful jet-powered passenger aircraft.
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C.
Camelus
Camelus is a genus of large, hump-backed mammals commonly known as camels, adapted for survival in arid desert environments.
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Arabian camel
The Arabian camel, also known as the dromedary, is a single-humped camel adapted to hot desert environments and widely used as a beast of burden and source of milk, meat, and wool across arid regions.
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E.
Camelus bactrianus
Camelus bactrianus is the domesticated two-humped Bactrian camel, adapted to cold desert and steppe environments of Central Asia and used traditionally for transport, wool, milk, and meat.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bird family
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| activityPattern | diurnal ⓘ |
| breedingHabitat |
offshore islands
ⓘ
sandy coastal areas ⓘ |
| class | Aves NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| closestRelatives |
Charadriidae
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Glareolidae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commonName | crab-plover family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsTaxon | Dromas ardeola NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributionRegion |
Arabian Peninsula coasts
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
East Africa coasts ⓘ Indian Ocean coasts NERFINISHED ⓘ South Asia coasts ⓘ Southeast Asia coasts ⓘ |
| ecologicalNiche | specialized crab predator ⓘ |
| eggCharacteristic | white eggs ⓘ |
| eggIncubationBehavior | both parents incubate ⓘ |
| foragingBehavior |
probing for prey
ⓘ
shoreline foraging ⓘ |
| habitat |
coastal regions
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coral islands ⓘ mudflats ⓘ sandy shores ⓘ |
| hasOnlySpecies | Dromas ardeola NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRepresentativeSpecies | crab-plover NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isMonotypic | true ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| morphologicalCharacteristic |
black-and-white plumage
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long legs ⓘ partially webbed feet ⓘ strong heavy bill ⓘ |
| namedAfterGenus | Dromas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nestType | burrow nests ⓘ |
| numberOfGenera | 1 ⓘ |
| numberOfSpecies | 1 ⓘ |
| order | Charadriiformes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| rangeType | Old World coasts ⓘ |
| recognizedBy |
BirdLife International
NERFINISHED
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Clements Checklist of Birds of the World NERFINISHED ⓘ IOC World Bird List NERFINISHED ⓘ International Ornithologists Union NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reproductiveBehavior | colonial nester ⓘ |
| taxonRank | family ⓘ |
| typicalDiet |
crabs
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crustaceans ⓘ marine invertebrates ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Dromadidae Description of subject: Dromadidae is a small bird family best known for the crab-plover, a distinctive shorebird of coastal regions around the Indian Ocean.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.